well-to-do

Modifies a noun

• farmer: Where they were some distance from the commons, however, even the relatively well-to-do farmers had to reduce their cropping.
• family: Tyndall was then drawn toward Nick Griffin, who came from a well-to-do family.
• lady: Recently at the airport I sat between two middle-aged and evidently well-to-do ladies waiting for our flight to be called.
• woman: The women who attended this Congress were for the most part well-to-do women of the middle class.
• man: And Zebedee was a fairly well-to-do man because he employed hired servants in his business.
• people: Well-to-do people with stable homes, in good health are more likely to vote.

Modifying Another Word

• fairly: Most of the exchange is in Standard English which you could argue shows that the pupils are from a fairly well-to-do background.
• relatively: Where they were some distance from the commons, however, even the relatively well-to-do farmers had to reduce their cropping.
• very: You can become very well-to-do marketing your books through your own website.
• rather: My father was a doctor and my mother came from a rather well-to-do family in Germany.